Welcome to the city (if you can really call it that)

This is my fourth week living out of home. It's new. It's kind of scary. It's probably the best decision I've made in my life.

My name is Holly, and I'm a strategic communication student at La Trobe University, Bendigo. I'm living on campus here, but I'm originally from Essendon, eleven kilometres from the Melbourne CBD. Clearly I'm new to this whole regional thing; I'm a city kid at heart. I'm unnerved by the lack of traffic and aircraft noise here. I'm confused by the huge blocks of land, and even more perplexed that none of them are up for sale. I can't fathom why everything is so spaced out, and so far apart. I like my shops and transport in close quarters to me at all times. I'm living with seven girls at the moment, the most cosmopolitan of whom hails from the bustling metropolis that is... Shepparton. Don't get me wrong, I love my housemates and I love it here. I just don't understand growing up next door to a chicken chicken farm (that's a chicken farm that sells chicken, as opposed to an egg chicken farm), or knowing everyone in your town because there are only six hundred people living there.

Anyway, enough from this city rat. I'll drop in again when I think of more opinions the internet needs to hear.